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Chip Huyen
@chipro
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Braden and team are great! Highly recommend this program for independent researchers working on cool stuff!
Slingshots // Four is live! Another batch, another fourteen projects shipping open source artifacts that I’m excited about. See below for the full list. A few themes from the batch: 1. Harness time: This quarter harnesses shot up in visibility, with increased appreciation for the parts of an agent that aren’t the model and what they can give you. This batch includes a harness supporting persistent agency (Headlong); a harness supporting self-improvement via context management (ACE); a harness supporting self-improvement of the agentic harness itself (Exo); and a harness supporting multi-agent setups (dotagents). 2. Up and down the stack: There’s innovation to be had at every layer of the stack. We saw projects worth backing at the level of kernels (Thunderkittens); inference (M*); training (Marin); data (Atlantic-CC); evals (Decision Assistants); optimization (SkyDiscover); applications (Wagglehaus), etc. 3. Talk of the town: Slingshots continue to tackle timely problems at the frontier. Concurrent with Jev taking over X, an even faster type 1 decision model (CLM) came out of academia. With RSI on the brain of every big lab researcher, we now have a public literature retrieval benchmark grounded in authors’ firsthand accounts of their research process (ScholarCatalyst). And a new RL training method (Pedagogical RL) addresses head-on the question vexing RL practitioners of how privileged information can be used to discover generalizable behaviors, not just verify. Congrats to all the researchers in this batch and the previous three who continue to ship their research out into the world with open artifacts that can be adopted and built upon. Open science leads to better outcomes for everyone. And the good times will continue to roll – batch five is looking just as good. If you’re a researcher with a project that’s gaining momentum and ready for an adrenaline shot, shoot me a DM or apply at 👏 @a1zhang, @AlexKrentsel, @ankrgyl, @Azaliamirh, @bariskasikci, @bfspector, @chelseabfinn, @chipro, @Diyi_Yang, @dlwh, @drmapavone, @HazyResearch, @jackyk02, @jonasgeiping, @JonSaadFalcon, @jure, @kothasuhas, @lateinteraction, @martin_casado, @mertcemri, @michaelryan207, @MikeCafarella, @NickAJalbert, @NoahZiems, @nsagan271, @ohmyksh, @percyliang, @qizhengz_alex, @RussoMatthew, @samrmadden, @shagarw21, @ShashwatGoel7, @shulynnliu, @simran_s_arora, @souradipchakr18, @stuart_sul, @tianyu_li_, @tim_kraska, @WilliamBarrHeld, @yoonholeee, @YejinChoinka, @Stanford, @MIT, @LaudeInstitute, @CarnegieMellon, @UW, @UCBerkeley, @MPI_IS, @UWMadison
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Interesting approach. Models can't output freeform text but can choose from a set of predefined values. Could be useful for data labeling and tasks with a fixed list of possible actions. Unclear how reasoning would work though, but it's super cheap (output tokens are free!)
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After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev • 20-200x faster • 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free) • Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution
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i'm researching best practices for skills. what's the most number of skills you've had installed for your agents?
real question: why does gpt 5.6 over engineer so much?
what's a good model tiering system? i'm sick of telling my agent orchestrator things like: "for Claude, use model X, for OpenAI, use model Y, etc." i want to be able to tell my orchestrator: "use models tier ..." for this kind of task
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that's the problem he should've sent them in all caps
We asked an unreleased research version of Claude to take a stab at the Riemann hypothesis. It didn’t solve it, but it did make strides on a related problem: it increased the lower bound for the fraction of zeros of the Riemann zeta function that satisfy the hypothesis from 41.6% to 67.2%.
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why don't model providers price tokens like electricity, higher price during peak hours and cheaper off peak?
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Auto science is gonna be 🔥 Congrats anh Quoc and team!
Excited to co-found Discovery Loop with my long-time collaborators @JeffDean @Sanjay_Ghemawat @OriolVinyalsML . Our mission is to automate machine learning, engineering and science. Learn more at: ♾
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Our first model, Inkling. Trained from scratch, weights are open, fine-tunable on Tinker today.
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bored at the airport so i made this
Congrats to @AlecRad @Luke_Metz and @soumithchintala! It's really cool to see work produced by a group of 20-somethings without a single PhD between them winning this award. I hope to see these three collaborate again one day :)
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We are honored to announce the Test of Time awards for #ICLR2026# 🏆 This award recognizes papers published 10 years ago at ICLR 2016 that have had a lasting impact on the field:
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Got to meet the wonderful Chip Huyen @chipro She’s so nice and smart!!
Excited to release PostTrainBench v1.0! This benchmark evaluates the ability of frontier AI agents to post-train language models in a simplified setting. We believe this is a first step toward tracking progress in recursive self-improvement 🧵:
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Super impressed by the projects at the Agentic Hackathon last weekend! Many teams work on really hard/important problems: * Long running tasks: memory management, recovering from mid-task failures, and maintaining consistency across steps and sub-agents * Adaptive retrieval from multiple sources: databases, search indices, and websites * Agents that work with voice, video, and even 3D environments If you are in SF, come check out the finalist demos tomorrow! There will be talks by Douglas Eck, who is doing amazing work with Veo and Imagen and many other awesome folks. Thanks @MongoDB and @cerebral_valley for hosting and for letting me serve as a judge for these fantastic projects.
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OMG there's a bookstore dedicated to technical books in Taipei!
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After years of following @lennysan's wonderful takes on product, I finally had the opportunity to chat with him about AI products! 1. Many AI product problems aren’t because of AI. It’s usually because of user experience, data quality, or organizational structure. A chatbot failed to get traction because their targeted users simply couldn’t type (because their hands were usually busy -- taking care of kids or driving), so showing pre-populated questions and adding a voice option significantly improved traction. Another team told me their lead scoring model was broken. It turns out that it’s because the marketing team wasn’t asking the right questions to get data. The biggest product improvements still come from understanding your users, preparing your data, and investing in your team! 2. Senior engineers see the most productivity improvement with AI coding because they have more experience with writing design docs and API specs, which help them write better instructions. However, they’re also more resistant to using AI for coding. Senior folks are often more opinionated and get frustrated easily when AI doesn’t do what they want. 3. Many teams spend a lot of time debating which tool to use, which can be counter-productive. When teams ask me which of the 2 tools to use, I usually ask 2 questions: “How much performance improvement will the optional tool give over the less optimal one?” --> If the improvement is small, then spend less time debating. “How hard is it to change from one tool to another once you’ve adopted it?” --> If the tool is new and not yet battle tested, I’d think twice about adopting something that I can’t get out later. 4. Many people know that the most effective way to learn AI is to build with AI. Yet, people keep asking me: “But what should I build?” We seem to be having an “idea crisis”. We have all these wonderful tools to help us build things, and no idea what to build. An exercise I often recommend is to spend a week noticing what frustrates you in your daily work, then build small tools to solve those specific pain points.
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A hiring manager just told me that it's a red flag 🚩 if a software engineering candidate hasn't experimented with vibe coding. Thoughts?